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Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-05-05
CHOICE SELECTIONS.

One great cause of our insensibility
to the goodness of our Creator is the
very extensiveness of his bounty
Patcu.
Let no one dare to seek the COM
fort of the Holy Spirit who cherishes
some secret sin.-Mdruin.
Many secrets of religion are not
perceived till they be felt. and are not
felt but in the day of great calamity.
Jeremy Taylor.
Il think the world of to-day would
60 mad, just frenzied with strain and
pressure. but for the blessed institution
of Sunday. Brooke Herford.
The sages and heroes of history are
receding from us. and history contracts
the record of their deeds into narrow
and narrower page. But time has no
power over the name and deeds and
words of Jesus Christ.--W E. Claiming.
No man can fill another's place. or
do another's work. in the plan of God.
God wants no man to be just like an
other man. No one of the Bible heroes
could do rs we'll, in the sphere as
signed to one of us, as the one who is
now in that sphere. We are called to
have the best traits of those men. and
to be ourselves in the exhibit of those
traits.-S-S Times.
Few 60 wrong when they pray over
their movements, and use the judg-
ment which God has given them. The
last is not to be omitted, for l have
known persons pray about a matter
which was perfectly clear to any one
with half a grain of sense. In order to
escape from an evident but unpleasant
duty. they have talked about praying
over it. Where plain command is
given. an unmistakable finger points
out the way. and hesitation is re-
bellion. Sluggards make prayer an
excuse for doing nothing; on the other
hand. wilful people make up their
mind. and then pray; and this is sheer
hypocrisy.-C H. Spurgeon.
DO those who have reached the age
of forty realize that more people have
died since they were born than were in
the world at the time of their birth?
Yet death seems to us all. however old.
unnatural and unfamiliar. We can
never bring ourselves to look upon it
without the deepest solemnity and the
most eager curiosity. We may be GER
tain that death is not far from any one
of us. We should at all times be ready
to step across the unseen line which
lies only little distance ahead of each
of us. Not what we know, or do, OF
have. but what we are. will fit us to
cross the invisible line into the unseen
world.-Csmberl0nd Presbyterian.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-05-05
UNTlMELY VISITORS.

A Species Of Femlninity Whose Ways Are
Beyosd Ordinary Comprehension.
There are some pc Ople in the world
who seem TO have been born with the
idea that visiting is one of the funda-
mental rules of living. and with this
principle firmly fixed in their minds
live up to it accordingly. without any
thought whatever of those they annoy
by SO doing. They come in at any
hour in the day, usually in the MORN
ing. that most precious working-time
for women, just to chat about some
thing of not the slightest Importance
to the person visited. "Oh, we are not
going to detain you; We won't stop n
moment" they say. While the hostess
listens and replies courteously to the
conversation of her guests. her ear
catches the sound of her clothes, that
she had placed in boiler on the stove.
boiling over. and, with hurried apOl-
Ogy, she hastens to the kitchen, adds
more cold water, leaves the cover Of
the boiler of and is quickly back again
with the visitors, who remark on the
loneliness of the day. and what a pity
it is for any one to stay in the hous
such weather.
The hostess makes some polite reply
thinks of her washing in the other
room waiting for her. how she would
have had it on the line but for her un-
timely visitors, who, having remained
fully an hour. always going, yet seem
not any nearer to it than when first
seated. After another hour spent in
the same way, during which time tho
nervous hOusekeeper has made many
journeys 10 and from the kitchen, tbe
guests leave. remarking that they
couldn't possibly remain any longer,
and the wearied woman goes back to
her washing and with nervous haste
tries to make up for time wasted. The
clothes must be ont before noon, and
the dinner for the husband and chill
dren on the table at that time. WHY
such people, if they must visit, should
choose the busiest part of the day to
call upon women whom they know to
have all they can do. toll as hard as
they may, to get their work we'll done,
in preference to those having mora
leisure at their disposal. like the riddle
of the Sphinx, is hard to answer. Il
does seem as though these people had
missed their vocation and book can
vassers lost a valuable acQuisition.-
Boston Budget
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-05-05
He Meant a Lift, We Kneow.

''Have you got a raiser in the house?"
asked an Indiana man who registered
at Wizards for one night only.
II don't know of any. SIR" replied
the clerk, and the barber shop has been
closed for two hours"
Barber shop, thunderr' exclaimed
the impatient guest. Il don't want no
barber shop. I'm tired out. Iwant to
go upstairs to bed"
'.All right, sir, and I'll send the
razor to you in the morning SO you can
shave before breakfast"
young man. said the Indianian,
as light dawned upon him, you're
off your base. don't want no razor to
shave with; / want raiser that'il git
me upstairs without havin' to walk"
Then the clerk tumbled. and the
bell boy led the guest over and put him
in the elevator. Washington Critic.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-05-05

follow after to the next house, where
this discordant performance would be
repeated. His size protected him from
a kicking, and he was wholly regard
less of the angry glances of the
disgusted musician. Whether he
sought to express pleasure, or was un-
able to repress his dislike to this sort
of music, have never been able to de-
termine. H. Lore!, in Congrega-
tionalist.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-05-05
MClPIENT MUSTACHES.
How They Arc Removed from Pretty
Women's lips by Electricity.

women's lips by Electricity.
"Oh. yes" said surgical student,
''women can have their upper lips
cleared of incipient mustaches by
electricity. An illustration of the pro-
cess was given lately before a class at
the Women's College. The students
had seats in a small amphitheater, be-
fore surgeons chair, which resembled
a BARRIERS chair suggestively. The
demonstration was an expert in cleo
tricity. He first brought in battery,
attached to which were wires. one end
ing in a needle and the other in
handle. Then he introduced girl.
She was French, and could not speak
much English. 1 presume he had hired
her for the purpose, though she might
well desire to submit 10 the ordeal, for
on her upper lip was decidedly TIN
pretty growth of hair. She was u neat,
nice-looking creature with an olive
skin and piquant feat res.
1.-The operator plac. d the handle Of
the machine in one o! her hands. and
tolu her TO grip Is ste; dlly. mat was
to keep up . cure 1t through her
whenever he touched her with the
needle. He fixed a magnifying glass
in his eye, bent over her as she lay
back in the chair, stuck the needle
along down the course of single hair
to its root.
"'Ouch-h-hr exclaimed the girl.
"But she said that she could stand
it, that the hurt was not much, and SO
he went on gently stabbing the hairs,
the electricity each time removing one
of the hirsute offences. Fifty were
thus done away with at this sitting.
The operator explained that they could
never grow again, but that the pro-
cess should be carefully conducted in
order not to make tiny scars. IN Y.
SIM.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-05-05
Sunday-School Lessons
SECOND QUARTER.

SECOND QUARTER
Arr. 17.-Joseph Makes Himself Known.
Gen. IS: 1-15.
Apv. 2l-Joseph and His Father. Gen. A.:
LIZ.
May 1.-Israel in Egypt Exod. I: Ga.
May 8.-The Child Moses. Exod 2: 40.
May 15.-The Call OF Moses. Exod. 8: liza
May 2!.-The Passover. Exod. II: ia
May 29.-The Red Sea. EXOd. IA: 1881.
June 5.-The Mamma. Exod. Is: 4-12.
June 12.-The Commandments Exod. 20: l.
II.
June 19-The Commandments. Exod. 20: r.
81
June observation-disclosures Lesson, Lev.
10: Ill; Missionary Lesson, Exod. IS: 2O-29.
Or, q Service Of Song and PRAYER.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-05-05

to pass. Adversely served as means of
drawing out the nobler qualities of
these great men. Had not necessity
urged them to vigorous action and
forced them to put forth their best
powers. they would doubtless have re-
manned in obscurity. The longest and
most dreary winter often precedes the
most pleasant and fruitful summer.
And we enjoy the beauties and pleas
ures of the summer all the more by the
contrast. So the misfortunes of LIES
early struggles give US higher and
better appreciation of earthly blessings
when we do receive them. We are
sometimes called upon to suffer Attic
tions, but in the sequel it usually APP
pears that they were the means of pre-
serving us from far greater evils.
Anlictions. though they seem severe,
In mercy oft are sent;
They stopped the prodigars career,
And caused him to repent.
We should cultivate the elements Of
fortitudc. that we patiently endure the
Affections of this life. We should en-
deavor to- acquire that strength of char.
acter which will enable us to stand
erect against the most violent storm
that adversely can let loose upon US.
Let us not shudder at the prospect of
its coming. nor lose heart in the reali-
cation of its presence. In every dark
ened moment of our lives we may find
comfort in the assurance of Scripture
that "all thing work together for good
to them that love God" Again. we
are told that "our light affection. which
is but for a moment. wOrketh for US
far more exceeding and eternal weight
Of glory" Delightful thought! Our
eternel felicity in the home over there
will far eclipse any suffering we may
have endured in this life.-Reu. B. w.
Williams, in N. W. Christian AdUocate.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-05-05
RELIGIOUS READING.
THE SILENT CITY.

Silent City. calm and fair,
Graced with sculptured marbles rare;
In thy green and terraeed slopes
Lie the graves of precious hopes;
We have brought. with sigh and tear,
Treasures well beloved here.
Little children. once our pride,
Slumber meekly side by side;
Here are those of ripest age,
Who have read to life's last page:
Men and women-brightest, best
Here have found their house of rest
Naught to them are suns or SHOWS,
II season comes or goes;
Naught to them is peace or strife,
Naught the joys or ills of life:
Such supreme, unmarried repOse
Only one who sleeps here knows.
From this strange. untroubled sleep
Never eyes may wake to weep;
Never weary arms up-bear
Old familiar loads Of care;
Never any bliss or pain
Stirs the quiet heart again.
When the stream It's slumbers breaks,
And the spring new life awakes;
When the earth, in verdurous dress,
Stands complete in l0veliness-
Then how oft the words are said:
It is dreadful to be deadi
Still to lie beneath the grass;
Naught to them the feet that pass;
Never is their silence stirred
BY the song Of any bird;
Twilight, noo1, or morn's fair light
Naught is theirs but long midnight.
But when life is sorely pressed,
When our prayer is but for rest,
When the conflict RACES near,
And our hearts grow faint with fear
Then how oft the words are said:
It is blessed to be dead!
Safe from stormy wind that blows,
Past the scorn and hate of foes,
Free from passions fierce unrest,
Done with unavailing quest
So, the grave refuge seems,
With its sleep too deep for dreams.
Come, o Faith. and sweetly sing
OF the souls that swift took wing,
Leaving but their masks Of clay
For the dust to hide away;
Bid us raise our troubled eyes
To the mansions in the skies!
Come, O Christ, with touch Of balm.
Shed o. r doubts and fears Thy calm;
OF each grave keep Thou the seal;
Help our burdened hearts to feel
They alone are truly blest
Who have reached Thy house Of restI
Lillian GREY, in C0ngreglti0naIist.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-05-05
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

"A chair of Pedagogues has juse
been established at Princeton under
Prof. West.
OF the original members of .Plym-
9th Church only two-Henry c. Bowen
and John T. Howard-are living.
The Peoples Baptist Church has
been organized at Manchester, N. H.,
with eighty-three members-Goldess
Rule.
The Dartmouth, with eleven hum
dred copies per issue. has larger cir
culation than any other college paper
in the United States.
The collection for Homo Missions
in the Fourth Avenue Presbyterian
Church-Dr. Crosby's-on . recent
Sunday amounted to $1,000.
I'm the new University of Cali
fornia, built by Leland Stanford, wom-
en- are to share the benefits of every
department equally with men.
The nine normal schools of the
State of New York graduate only teach
ers enough to fill one in ten of the vacan-
cies occurring in the ranks OF instruc-
tors.
The Zenana Medical College Of
England in its six years history has
qualified and sent out seventy ladies'
as medical practitioners for mission
fields.
The following are the twelve oldest
Catholic Sees in the United States,
taken in chronological order: Balti-
more was established in 1779, New
Orleans in 1898. New York. Boston
and Louisville in 1909, Charleston in
1920, Richmond in 1921. Cincinnati in
1922. Mobile in 1924, st. Louis in 1926
and Detroit in 1882.
Statistics show that the New En-
gland States have furnished more
church members. Sunday-school teach
ers and ministers throughout the West
within twenty years than all the other
States combined. From one New En-
gland State alone there went forth. in
1885. $50 ministers under the age Of
twenty-seven.-M Y. Witness. -
"Howling" schools are common
in the mountainous regions of Ken
lucky. The name is an appropriate
one, as it is the custom for the pupils
to study their lessons aloud. The idea
prevails that children can only study
aloud. The same custom prevails in
China There. whenever pupil stops
''howling." his teacher fogs him be-
cause he has ceased to study.-C Chicago
Times.
Since the union few years ago
the Methodist constitute the largest
religious denomination in Ontario,
Can. and they are. it appears making
the most rapid progress. The Presby-
terians come next. The Anglicans are
third in size and said to be hardest in
growth. The Roman Catholics are
fourth. The Congregationalists and
Baptists have not taken very firm hold
of Canadian soil as Philadelphia
Press.
Female students are pretty numer-
Gus in Paris. Most of them arc Russians.
generally very poor, so they club to-
gether in small sects-many of them
have brothers or husbands with them
who are students also-and put their
resources into common fund. One
room is used as dOrmitory, another as
study, etc, and a single cook does for
all phalansterism as proposed by
Fourier. They work hard, and the life
of all. men and women, is very re- 3
spectacle in every way.-Boston Globe.
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THE USES OF ADVERSELY.

They Are Sent to Strength Us, to Draw
Out Our FOrtitude and Make Us Divine.
" Sweet are the uses of adversely
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet precious Jewel in his head;
And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running
brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything"
Shakespeare.
It is not possible that our earthly ex-
stence should be one of unallOwed
happiness. Life is marked by many
vicissitudes. We can not always enjoy
the sunshine of prosperity. We may
expect, now and then. to meet with
failures. reverses and disappointments.
Adversely is normal human expert
ence. We may not understand the
reasons for it, in all cases; but the
fact remains. and happy is the soul
that is enabled to rightly discern its
uses and to profit by its discipline.
How few understand the philosophy of
adversely! How few recognize the
benefits resulting from its visitations !!
We fail to comprehend and appreciate
the lessons of instruction which it is
designed to give. We are disposed to
murmur at that which does not turn
out in accordance with our wishes.
We are inclined to repine when our un-
dertakings prove unsuccessful. or fail
to contribute directly to our happiness.
When misfortune overtakes us, how
natural it is for us to bewail our sad
lot and give way to dependency. We
are wanting in the philosophical dis
cipline and manly attributes which rise
serene above disappointments. and find
losses an incentive to more vigorous
exertiOn.
There is philosophy in adversely. 1t
has its legitimate and proper uses. 1t
is evidently designed for our good.
Some one has said: "A smooth sea
never made a skillful mariner" 1t is
the stormy weather and the raging bill
lows that call forth his greatest ener-
gies and develop his skill. In like
manner life of uninterrupted pros
perity does not bring out the strength
of the soul, and does not fully qualify
man for usefulness and happiness. Ad-
versity draws out and developes his fac
ulties and powers. 1t causes him to
put forth his utmost exertiOns for the
purpose of overcoming difficulties; it
produces in his character
principles of fortitude and
endurance in constantly bracing
his mind against outward calamities;
it enables him to acquire a loftiness of
purpose and moral heroism which are
worth lifetime of softness and self
indulgence.
The good are better made by ill
As odors crushed are sweeter still.
History shows that the great heroes
and benefactors of mankind have gem
orally been persons who were nurtured
and disciplined in a school of adversely.
This is notably true of such men as
Tasso, Dante, Milton, Franklin,
Marshall, Columbus, Beethoven, Oliver
Goldsmith. Sir Walter Scott, Alfred the
Great and many others. They were
purified. exalted and strengthened for
the work of their lives by the trials and
SORROWS through which they were called
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-05-05

"A Change for the Worse.-Iomp-
kins-"How are you? Oh. say, I will
pay you that bill the next time meet
YOUR Johnson-"You have been say
ing that for months A little change
would suit me better" Tompkins-
..Oh, well, I'll try not to meet you any
more. Life.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-05-05

The French Government offers
prize of $4,000 for ga cheap method
for the application of electricity to
the purposes of heating and lighting,
chemical or mechanical force, tele-
graphy. or the treatment of the sick"
m y. Ledger.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-05-05
FOR DUB YOUNG READERS
A DESPERATE CASE.

What is it ais my dollie dear!
lam not quite sure know.
She's very sick; and if she dies
Twill be fearful blow.
She's got ammonia" in her lungs
.sPlumbago" in her back,
A 'sepid" liver, and cough
That keeps her on the rack.
She's got an .'ulster" in her throat
And ..bunions" on her hand:
Her skull is pressing on her brain
Twill have to be '.japann'd."
think I'll send for Doctor Jones,
And Doctors Price and Bell;
They'll hold a consolation" then,
And may be she'll get well.
r. H. Stdurer, in Hdrpsrs Young People.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-03-28

rations were afterward invested with
those rlghts,a In return these corpora
tions paid certain revenues to the kings
privy purse. Three hundred years ago
the old English oathedrsls were given
10 some instances the power cflevying
such taxes or imposts. and derived con-
siderable revenue from that source.
Tradesmen were all taxed and no one
could engage In any handioraft without
paying for the privilege. This drum
mer's tax Is relic Of this Old custom,
and with oil occupation taxes bhoah -
abolished. Let the free trade OF all
parts OF this country with all other
parts, be carried on without let or him
dranoe, and let the protection BE-
against foreign competition. There Is
no such q thing - an occupation tai
known In the great majority OF the
poi them states. There should b none
anywhere. Let the taxes be direct up
on property and prosecutions, and not
upon industry and energy and busineas.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-03-28
pRUMM ER's TAX.

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VINO In Jsnish :

Antoinette Janish vas born 10 Vienna
about Is years ago. aud passed her child.
hood In poverty. An old actress, Bisnco,
recommended her TO study for the stage,
and she did 90. J Whilst 90 engaged she
attracted the attention Of the German
poet, Heinrich Lanbe, and. struck
by her talent, he introduced her
to Q the director of the Imperial
theatre. who, having examined her pow
ers, said, my child. Heaven intended
Laube's Impressions and he placed her
under Leyinsky's tuition. seventeen
years ago she made her debut at the In
perial theatre 10 Vienna and scored Z
great suceess. In one year she was rec-
ognized - one Of the greatest Austrian
artistes and has since maintained that
proud position. Ia 1873 she married the
Count Arco, one Of the neblest
and richest Bavarian noblemen,
and has since then won .
series OF social and professional
triumphs. The countess has pretty
face, mobile. features, pleasant, melodi.
Gus voice Of good timber. and O superb
figure. To these naturxi qualifications Of
tragedienne should be added, the men.
tai power to comprehend In all
their fullnese, the vsrious phasei
OF the character assumed, and the pow.
er to exhibit thoso characters In al
theis force. While it IL true that she
speaks with Q slightly foreign accent
that, which would mar Others, IL an ad.
vantage 70 her, inasn1uch - the piquau.
cy Of her accent adds 70 the beauty ofthC
character.